Minnesota and the Far WestW. Blackwood and Sons, 1855 - 306 páginas Oliphant acted as secretary to Lord Elgin during the negotiation at Washington of the reciprocity treaty with Canada. He then accompanied Lord Elgin to Quebec. There he was appointed superintendent of Indian affairsE, and made a journey to Lake Superior and back by the Mississippi to Chicago. |
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... Fond du Lac - Land in Minne- sota - An Indian wigwam , 128-142 CHAPTER XIII . THE CITY OF SUPERIOR - LAND SPECULATION . An invisible city - First settlers - A Far West greeting - First sensations --- A cool inhabitant - Superior ...
... Fond du Lac - Land in Minne- sota - An Indian wigwam , 128-142 CHAPTER XIII . THE CITY OF SUPERIOR - LAND SPECULATION . An invisible city - First settlers - A Far West greeting - First sensations --- A cool inhabitant - Superior ...
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... FOND DU LAC , 168 THE PORTAGE , 179 OUR BARK CANOE , 190 SANDY LAKE , 202 LITTLE FALLS OF MISSISSIPPI , 224 CAMPING OUT ON THE MISSISSIPPI , 227 WINNEBAGOE Lodges , 242 ST ANTHONY , 244 FORT SNELLING , 251 ST PAUL , 284 STEAMER SNAGGED ...
... FOND DU LAC , 168 THE PORTAGE , 179 OUR BARK CANOE , 190 SANDY LAKE , 202 LITTLE FALLS OF MISSISSIPPI , 224 CAMPING OUT ON THE MISSISSIPPI , 227 WINNEBAGOE Lodges , 242 ST ANTHONY , 244 FORT SNELLING , 251 ST PAUL , 284 STEAMER SNAGGED ...
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... Fond du Lac , the last two thousand miles from the mouth of the St Lawrence being entirely inland navigation . Lake Huron is so abundantly studded with islands that one might cruise in it for months and always find fresh points . of ...
... Fond du Lac , the last two thousand miles from the mouth of the St Lawrence being entirely inland navigation . Lake Huron is so abundantly studded with islands that one might cruise in it for months and always find fresh points . of ...
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... Fond du Lac , the extreme western point of Lake Superior . Although so small a place , there was too much novelty about the Sault to admit of anything like ennui . Moreover we were indebted to Captain Clarke , commanding the detachment ...
... Fond du Lac , the extreme western point of Lake Superior . Although so small a place , there was too much novelty about the Sault to admit of anything like ennui . Moreover we were indebted to Captain Clarke , commanding the detachment ...
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... Fond du Lac , and I was sitting talking to my whittling friend , when we made fast to the pier opposite a stack of timber . He proposed going ashore , with a view of A SPECULATIVE COLONEL . 129 " liquoring up " at.
... Fond du Lac , and I was sitting talking to my whittling friend , when we made fast to the pier opposite a stack of timber . He proposed going ashore , with a view of A SPECULATIVE COLONEL . 129 " liquoring up " at.
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Página 255 - ... pear tree, or a pumpkin, to a sweet potato or a tobacco plant. Why, sucker, do you know you have frosts about two weeks earlier in Illinois than we do here? It is a fact ! We will show these people sights who come up here in May, and go shivering back home, saying that Minnesota is "too cold for crops.